A year ago, a reader with the handle of bigthistle posted one of our favorite hacks to hacks.oreilly.com, describing how to access restricted websites using the Google Translate feature. Acknowledging that our readers often have better ideas than we do, we recently asked Wei-Meng Lee to take a closer look at this technique, and he […]
Dorkbot meetups tend to happen on first Wednesdays. People doing strange things with electricity gather to share ideas and get support on half made projects around the world. I’m going to be at the one in NYC that will have a focus on music that looks really good. Do you have a dorkbot in your […]
Craft Lab premieres this week on HGTV! (10am PST/EST) Host Jennifer Perkins (Naughty Secretary Club and Austin Craft Mafia) gives you a daily dose of cool craft projects while reporter Cat Greenleaf travels the country in search of crafty challenges. The rest of the episodes this week are: Wednesday – Painting With Crayons with Traci […]
Julie Ree has a great tutorial on how she makes her iPod cozies complete with elastic band. There are lots of great photos and Julie breaks down the sizes you’ll need depending on what iPod version you have. Link.
We’ve been trying to think up ten things Makers should resolve to do in the new year and so we asked our columnists and technical advisory board to each send one or more of their resolutions to share with our readers. We got a lot more than ten, but they’re all worthy of adding to […]
Mark had a problem, he had a broken ibook out of warranty and so he decided to fix it with fire! Here’s his great disclaimer: Now, to make things sure, this is NOT A HOW TO. If you set your house on fire because of this, don’t come complain to me, okay? If you do […]
Erinzam on Etsy has created a new kind of calendar – 12 month tags. You can use this calendar any year by just filling in the gird of dates for each month. All hang tags are hand screen-printed and include a mini-pencil, instruction leaflet with current 2007 calendar dates in a brown paper envelope — […]
